The tax inspector / Peter Carey.
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TextPublisher: Australia : Penguin Group (Australia), 2015Copyright date: ©1991Description: 367 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143571223Subject(s): Australian fiction | Australian fiction -- 20th century | Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction | New South Wales -- FictionSummary: The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector, with a cover by Michael Leunig The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Sixteen year old Benny dreams of transforming a failing autombile franchies into an empire, and himself into an angel. But when a beautiful and very pregnant angel of the Australian Taxation Office enters their lives, the resulting collision becomes, in Carey's hands, a masterpiece of coal-black humour and compassionate horror.
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Cover design by Michael Leunig and John Canty.
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector, with a cover by Michael Leunig The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Sixteen year old Benny dreams of transforming a failing autombile franchies into an empire, and himself into an angel. But when a beautiful and very pregnant angel of the Australian Taxation Office enters their lives, the resulting collision becomes, in Carey's hands, a masterpiece of coal-black humour and compassionate horror.
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Copyright © Peter Carey 1991; Cover design by Michael Leunig and John Canty © Penguin Group (Australia)
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